Example sentences of "came for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Tell the laird , ’ he shouted out , ‘ that we will have him out here , to hear us for himself — that is what we came for and we will stand here till we see him . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , advance he did , and so the time came for his Bar Mitzvah , at 13 years of age , by which every Jewish boy technically becomes adult ( i.e. morally responsible for his actions ) , a ‘ son of the law ’ . |
| 3 | Whatever it is , now the moment 's here that she came for , that she half foresaw , she wo n't tell . |
| 4 | She was polite , she gave me a small box of chocolates with a thank-you card and kissed me and shook my hand when she came for a meal on Sunday . |
| 5 | I remember well , during the air-raids of the forties when I was in London and we waited as darkness came for the first sirens and the deep breath to get one 's courage up , that we felt we were part of the will of the capital of England . |
| 6 | ‘ We just came for five years … ’ : writings about young life in Jamaica and adult life in England . |
| 7 | And when the time came for the A 's big bats to show their muscle , they froze like rabbits in the spotlight of Orel Hershiser 's fastball . |
| 8 | The solid offer of a place in the Department of Lands came for Mona and a similar job in the Department of Finance for Sheila . |
| 9 | J and M came for drinks and solo game . |
| 10 | Erika knew the words of a Protestant pastor , himself tortured and executed by the Gestapo : ‘ First they came for the Jews — and we said nothing . |
| 11 | Then they came for the Communists — and we said nothing . |
| 12 | Then they came for the Socialists — and we said nothing . |
| 13 | Then they came for the Trades Unionists — and we said nothing . |
| 14 | And then they came for us , and there was no one left to defend us . ’ |
| 15 | Their economies ensured that the fleapits would remain forever fleapits , until the time came for them to close . |
| 16 | When the time came for the statement , Dr Clark could be seen on the Opposition front bench , clutching a sheaf of notes . |
| 17 | They were the people who were already ‘ suffering greatly from having some 57,000 boat people there and more and more and more would come when the season came for them to leave Vietnam . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Then out of the blue , Nottingham came for me . |
| 19 | Many of them pass it on to their wives ; 1% of the women who came for pre-natal tests at the hospital were HIV-positive . |
| 20 | When the meter man came for the last time he spoke of my aunt , and of the many years he had been to the house , so that he felt himself to be almost an old friend . |
| 21 | And the girl who came for him was Young and Insolent and spoke to me as if I were some common washerwoman who must do as she was told which is not in my nature nor never was . |
| 22 | ‘ I came for a month . |
| 23 | First , you follow the Adenauer Allee out of Bonn through the suburb of Bad Godesberg where Neville Chamberlain came for his chats with Herr Hitler in the days before Munich . |
| 24 | Whether a visitor came for a particular story or whether the old woman had one in mind she wanted to relate , the preliminaries were the same : she entered into a state approaching that of a trance . |
| 25 | Soon the day came for him to leave for school . |
| 26 | Many enthusiasts came for a last look and as each week passed there was a little less of the Woodhead line to photograph . |
| 27 | The day came for me to go back to work . |
| 28 | We saw a class of very able children , with minimal impairment , who came for a P.E./music and movement session . |
| 29 | He died , and when the time came for his house to be demolished , a window from it was preserved and rebuilt in the park on a pedestal . |
| 30 | They came for glory and found themselves huddled together in the smallest of Whalley Range bedsits . |